Paper Info
Title
A distributed NFV orchestrator based on BDI reasoning
Abstract
Network function virtualisation (NFV) decouples network functions from physical devices, simplifying the deployment of new services. As opposed to traditional middleboxes, VNFs can be dynamically deployed and reconfigured on demand, posing strict management challenges to networked systems. Selecting VNFs from a repository, defining where they will be placed in the virtualised network as well as chaining them to achieve the desired behaviour are problems that have to be tackled by an orchestrator. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach to NFV orchestration using belief-desire-intention (BDI) reasoning, addressing the selection, placement and chaining problems through the interaction among autonomous software agents, which collectively work in a distributed and decentralised manner. Agents are capable of bidding on the allocation of resources for new VNFs, as well as managing the chaining of VNFs. Further, we validate our theoretical model through a DDoS attack case study, in which we analyse the emergent behaviour of the autonomous agents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.23919/INM.2017.7987270
2017 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
distributed NFV orchestrator,BDI reasoning,network function virtualisation,belief-desire-intention reasoning,autonomous software agents,resource allocation
Virtualization,Autonomous agent,Chaining,Computer science,Computer network,Software agent,Multi-agent system,Orchestration,Resource allocation,Orchestration (computing),Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-5658-3
1
0.34
References 
Authors
23
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frederico Schardong140.79
Ingrid Nunes219829.38
Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho312220.30